196 ROBINSON. . 
COMMELINACEAE. 
Four species were collected, all of wide Philippine distribution: CommeHna 
nudiflora Linn., 0215: Cyanotis capifata (Blume) C. B. Clarke, GOO'i: Forresfia 
philippincnsis 'Merr., 6935, 10381: PolUa sumatrana Hassk., 9275. 
PONTEDERIACEAE. 
Represented by the common Monochoria vaginalis Presl, local name caJahua; 
9022, 10S38. 
LILIACEAE, 
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Dracaena sp. 
This seems to be the species figured by Sarassin - ujider tlie name of D. 
muliijlora Warb., to which I can find no other reference, and so believe to be still 
undescribed. The Celebes plants, found in different localities there, grew in 
similar situations to those of Polillo, arid coral-rocks; the habit is very much 
the same, except that the Celebes trees were larger and more widely branched 
than those of Polillo, but they were no larger than those from which Merrill 
5!t02, Ubian Island (Sulu Archipelago), was obtained. The latter can only be 
distinguished from the Polillo collection, 10.^01, by its slightly narrower leaves; 
not even this avails to separate Bur. 8ci. 10635 McGregor, sterile, from Dalupiri, 
one of the Babuyanes Islands. D. maingayi TTook. f. is very closely allied, but 
its fruits are much larger. 
Otiier species: Dracaena angustifoUa Roxb., 6980, 10364: Bianella caendea 
Sims, 9206, 10394. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE. 
Curculigo glabra Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 297. 
Other\vise known from Mindoro; 10306. 
Other species: Crinum asiaticum Linn., 9091, fairly frequent along the coast, 
local name bacon; C. zeylanicum Linn., 103S1, cultivated in gardens. 
DIOSCOREACEAE. 
Tliere are 3 collections of Dioscorea, 6971 in fruit, 906S and 10Jf03 with 
staminate flowers; vegetatively all three might be the same, but the inflorescence 
of the staminate numbers is quite different, 0068 having fascicled axillary spikes, 
while in lOJfOS the fascicles are numerous, separated by about 2 cm on an axillary 
peduncle. Both belong to the group with entire leaves and 6- fertile anthers. 
The fruiting specimen, belonging to the section Eudioscorea, is probably the same 
species as 9068. 
IRIDACEAE. 
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Belamcanda chinensis (Linn.) DC. grows in wast« places in the town of 
Polillo; it has doubtedless been introduced but is as well established as almost 
any weed in the place; 9050, 
MUSACEAE. 
Kg collections were made. Miisa pararUsiaca Linn, and M. textilis Nee are 
both cultivated, 
'Reisen in Celebes 1 (1905) 136, ph //. 
